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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Wheat bran rubbed on will clean
soiled curtains OF sofas, If wooden.
Kid shoes may be kept soft and
free from cracks by an occasional
rubbing with pure glycerine.
To keep an oiled table as "nice
as new wipe it over thoroughly
with a flannel cloth well wet in
good kerosene oil.
To drive away ants scrub the
shelves or drawers that they fire.
quent with strong carbolic soap,
after which sprinkle red pepper in
every crevice.
The brown discoloratiOn of cups
in which custards have been baked
may be removed by rubbing them
with a damp flannel dipped in the
best whiting.
Coffee roasted on a hot shovel,
sugar burned Oh hot Goals, or
vinegar boiled with myrrh and
sprinkled OH the floor of sick
room are excellent deOdorizers.
Before undertaking to remove a
stain learn what caused it. Hot
water is often sufficient. An acid
is needed for an alkaline stain, and
soda or an acid if the fabric IS
white.
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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
FAST WALKING FARM HORSES.

Profits are small on all farm pro.
ducts and all kinds of live STOCK at
present, and the farmer who make ca
money on any investment in his
direct line of business, or by rails
ing crops or stock, must watch the
corners closely and prevent, if pos.
sible, anything that partakes Of the
nature of waste. The economy of
time is one of the things to be
looked after as closely az anything
else, and which the kind of horses
that are kept has considerable to
do with. Compare the distance
travelled in a day by a strong,
sturdy, fast.walking team with that
which slow, creeping team will
travel, and the difference will be
surprising. If this difference of a
day is so noticeable, what must
that OF a year, or the average life.
time OF horse be? If the slow
team pulls a plough or draws a
load but twenty miles per day,
while the other covers twenty-five
miles with as little fatigue, it is
easy to calculate what the differ.
ence would be in year, and how
long it would take to gain a whole
years time by using the active In
stead of the slothful horses. AS
the most of farm work is done at
the walking gait, it is then the
duty of the farmer to look after the
walking qualities of the horses he
breeds, as much as it is for those
who breed fast horses to look after
the speed.produclng qualities of
the horses they rear. While much
depends upon the training of a
horse as to whether he is a fast
walker or not, there is a great deal
in the breeding. Some horses are
naturally fast walkers, and, like
natural fast trotters or PAGERS, can
stand to work at their natural gait
much better than those which ac-
quired the habit of walking fast
by being pushed. Active, energet-
ic horses, with an inclination for
getting over the ground with a
strong, square walk, will be more
apt to produce colts that will be
success in this direction, than
clumsy horses with sleepy DISPOSE
tions, and these points should be
considered when selecting for
breeding purposes.-Ndtiondl Stock
man.
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"You have made me the happiest
man in the world, Annie. Let us
90 down on the beach," he said,
clasping me in his arms, 'and we
can talk it all over together"
We went slowly down to the
beach, and finding a shady cove,
we sat down. He passed his arm
around my waist, and, kissing me,
said: elbow long have I loved you,
Annie Can you guessp
mo, Harry"
"Just from the hour first saw
you"
Just as he spoke large rock
fell down from the cliff over our
head. My arm was lying on a rock
by my side, and the rock fell
with a heavy thud on 1t. l ut
tered scream, and hOarse, ex'
ulting laugh sounded over our
heads. Harry sprang to his feet,
and that is all l remember.
When / came to myself was ~
ing in my room, with Harry sitting
by my side. My arm was terribly
crushed and swollen. Harry said
when he got out where he could see
up on the cliff he saw a wOman's
dress futter among the rocks and
then disappear. We had no idea
who it was. So it remained a mys'
terry. My arm got well, and we
were making preparations for our
wedding, when one morning a boy
brought Harry note written In a
familiar hand. He opened it. and
this is what he read;
Mr.. HARRY ENGLEFIELD: l was
ia the garden when you were talk.
ing to Annie. l loved you, but l
hated her. l rolled the stone down.
l meant to crush her head, but l
did not. Forgive my murderous
intention. | have LETT, and you
will hear Of me no more.
HELEN LEROY.
Harry looked at me. "Poor Hell
en-" he said.
Harry and we're married. Years
later we heard that Helen had mar
ried a wealthy man and was happy.
Harry does not envy her husband
in the least.
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of the distance" from thenext Pres
idential election decreases.

of the distance" from thenext Pres
idential election decreases.
There are several classes of peo-
pie interested in this new arith'
metic, who furnish problems for our
solution. "Uncle Sam" gives one /;
In the U. S. IN one year, was spent
for liquor, a sum equal to $500
per capita. In a Republic of fifty
millions of people, how long would
it take, at that rate, to pay the
National debit
Maine sends one; Ten millions
under Prohibitory law;' How many
drunkards' families would that sum
support for the next fifty yearsl
A certain saloon.k keeper has an
income of $4,000 per year; how
many years income would 1t take
to compensate the widow OF Had
dock for the murder other husband 7
Here IS another: The CrOton wa
ter works of N. Y. are capable OF
discharging 60 millions of gallons
every q hours. If men should stop
drinking beer, and take to drinking
water, what will the people of New
York City do when that supply IS
exhausted ?
Reduce the fraction ope-man to
it's lowest terms the result is, one
drunkard. Here is one in Commits
sion: The U. S. Government and
John Jones, liquor dealer, form a
co-partnership with a capital of
$4,000. In the agreement, Jones
is to pay the U. s. G.. $500 out of
his profits, to protect his business.
If 800 souls per year are ruined, at
an average profit of $500 each, what
is the shareof the Government, and
what is Jones' commission at the
end of ten years
Only this in allegation. If 1-16
of mankind be mixed with PIG of
selfshness, 3-16 of brutality, 5-1G of
idiocy and 5.16 of lunacy, what is
the value OF the mixture? Answer.
One drunkard.
If 1I6 Of shame, JIG of bravado,
10.16 Of greed? One liquor seller.
If SO of unconcern, ole of Poll
cy, SIG of Party SPIRIT The voter
who gave his ballot on the side of
license, and against "God, and
Home and Native Land"
And now for the operation to be
performed. 1t is the cancellation OF
every license IN this land, by the
prime factors OF total abstinence
and legal suasion, and the rule we
work it by is that embodied in the
rule called "Golden," the law of
Prohibition originally delivered to
Moses on Mt. Sinai, and underlying
the creed so plainly revealed to st.
John the Prohibitionist, in the Pat
mos of Reflex action, following the
memorable Chicago Convention,
and when we get the answer to our
problem, we will erase all the math-
matical calculations, and drink
he health of this Republic in the
bverage Nature gave-clear, cold
w,ter. NJ. r. WINTER.
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A TOUCHING OBITUARY.
AN EDITORS HEARTFELT TEST
IONIAL TO A RESPECTED
CITIZEN.
dakota Bell

dakota Bell
"Bn Skinner is Dead" said a
man cmlng into the office of a Da-
kota newspaper.
"Moss and thunder !" yelled the
editor, eginning to jump around
the desk "That old thief hasn't
died, has he? l begun to think
the old fosil would live forever !!
lie owed be four years. back sub
scription, mt 1 am willing to lose
1t just for ne satisfaction of know
ing that tn bowling old hypocrlte
has got wha he deserves. Besides,
If l went ouland said word about
it the old roman and the boys
would chase De of the place with a
pitchfork. Cot to give him an
obituary, thogh, l suppose. Then
he sat down nd wrote:
at is wltha heavy heart and
tagging pen tat we make the an
nouncement tat William Horatio
Skinner is ne morel For many
years he has ben a leading citizen
OF this place; man hOnored, re-
spected, large-harted, able; a man
who touched nohing that he did
not adOrn. Tbs usually happy
community is phnged into deepest
gloom by the saevent. But what
is our loss is heSen's gain. Rest
in peace He vas a kind husband
and an indulgentfather."
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A Certain Cure fer Catarrh.

TRDBER, Tenn, Feb. 2S, 1887.
Gentlemen-FOr seven years /
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Mexican
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CURES
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marks that it doe not feel called
upon to answer eNry kissing rep
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toed wolf whelp.o
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THE PLOW AS A FRUIT DESTROYER.

On my farm consider the pillow
an enemy to the orchards, says
Colonel Custer in the American
Garden. 1t has always been i'm
possible to pillow the orchards with.
out. damaging the trees. There il
always more injury than can be
seen. The trees are always more
or less bruised or mangled, result
ing in decay, or they are started
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These injuries may be seen, but
the breaking and barking Of roots,
and the wholesale destruction of
the rootlets is unseen murder,
Some argue that trees will bear
better by having the roots reduced
in number, but that is, at best,
only temporary benefit 1t
checks the growth to reduce the
feeding capacity OF the tree, and
this tends to produce or bring
forward the fruit spurs but 1t is
better to wait little longer and
have a healthy tree and a longer
area for fruit development. The
destruction of fruit trees by cult
waiting the land is enormous.-
Whole orchards are swept away IN
a few years, and the best of
them are made short lived.
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